Spotify Wrapped 2025 turns listening into a competition

It’s time for year-end lists, annual roundups, and, of course, Spotify Wrapped. The usual suspects are here, like your most listened to song, your total time listened, and your favorite artist. You also get your 2025 Wrapped playlist, which now shows how many times you listened to each of your top 100 tracks this year. But, as usual, Spotify is also adding a ton of new stuff to its annual tradition, including Wrapped Party, which pits you against your friends to see who is the bigger (or weirder) music fan. Wrapped Party is an interactive feature that you “play” with friends. Granted, there isn’t much to actually do, since it’s mostly about what you’ve already listened to. You can’t go back in time and listen to a more obscure song than your friends, or retroactively listen to more horror audiobooks. Still, turning listening to music into a competitive sport is definitely a new twist on the annual Wrapped tradition. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Gif_sandwich_Rarest_listen_1614x908_5-13.gif?quality=90&strip=all] As part of the competition, you’ll receive individual awards like “The Onion Chopper” for listening to the saddest songs. But your entire group will be judged based on how well your tastes lineup, from “Copy and Paste” when your listening habits are almost identical, to “Chaos Crew” when you don’t share a single artist in common. Spotify is also bringing back its interactive song quiz and top artist sprint, which shows how your top five artists changed month by month. But the company will also be highlighting our top albums for the first time. In the past, Wrapped has been entirely focused on individual songs and on artists or genres. This year, the company is finally acknowledging that some of us still listen to albums from start to finish. Wrapped 2025 will also go further beyond music, highlighting your top audiobook genres for the first time. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Clubs-Mock.gif?quality=90&strip=all] Two other new features that aim to offer some insight into your listening habits are Clubs and Listening Age. The former is basically a more fun way of approaching your favorite genre. Rather than simply saying you listened to metal the most, you’ll be placed in the Grit Collective, which “believes in rebellion through music.” You’ll also be given a role in the club, such as Scout if you tend to be on the cutting edge of up-and-coming artists. Where Clubs foster a sense of belonging, Listening Age seems more designed to highlight how you might not fit in with your generation. It looks at your listening habits and basically says, “You listen to the music of a 70-year-old,” even if you’re only 38. If you’re still spinning late ’90s Nu Metal, it’s gonna say your Listening Age is in your early 40s. Listening to stuff that primarily came out in 2025? Well, you might only be 18 then. Spotify wasn’t first out of the gate with its annual Wrapped feature this year. Apple Replay launched on Monday, as did Amazon Delivered, and YouTube Music dropped its Recap before Thanksgiving. But while it might not be first, Spotify’s annual recap remains the most extravagant.